The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.